Robert Mugabe and the Will to Power in an African Postcolony 1st Edition William J. Mpofu

Robert Mugabe and the Will to Power in an African Postcolony – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030478780,3030478785

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030478785
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030478780
• Author(s): William J. Mpofu

This book is a philosopher’s view into the chaotic postcolony of Zimbabwe, delving into Robert Mugabe’s Will to Power. The Will to Power refers to a spirited desire for power and overwhelming fear of powerlessness that Mugabe artfully concealed behind performances of invincibility. Nietzsche’s philosophical concept of the Will to Power is interpreted and expanded in this book to explain how a tyrant is produced and enabled, and how he performs his tyranny. Achille Mbembe’s novel concept of the African postcolony is mobilised to locate Zimbabwe under Mugabe as a domain of the madness of power. The book describes Mugabe’s development from a vulnerable youth who was intoxicated with delusions of divine commission to a monstrous tyrant of the postcolony who mistook himself for a political messiah. This account exposes how post-political euphoria about independence from colonialism and the heroism of one leader can easily lead to the degeneration of leadership. However, this book is as muchabout bad leadership as it is about bad followership. Away from Eurocentric stereotypes where tyranny is isolated to African despots, this book shows how Mugabe is part of an extended family of tyrants of the world.

Table contents:

1. The Birth of the Symptom in the Postcolony
2. The Will to Power in the Postcolony
3. The Inventions of Robert Mugabe
4. When the Monsters Go Marching In: Mugabe the Production and Its Spectacles
5. A Career of Madness: Performances of the Will to Power
6. The Return of the Symptom in the Postcolony

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